The weather is cooling and the mornings are gray. I’m so happy to welcome Autumn. To me, this is the crossing of the threshold into the season of festivities. I’m giddy at the lights, decoration, music, foods and treats.

We celebrate. We celebrate the cycles of the earth that mirror the cycles within us. Celebration, laughter, and community is the nourishment we need right now. So we gather. We gather because we know deep within that it is what we are meant to do. We gather in the ways that keep us all healthy and thriving; In body and in spirit. Because the nights are growing longer and colder and we are preparing for the quiet cocoon of winter where the days are short and the nights, long. 

Before modern times, work stopped at dark. Because you couldn’t see much by candlelight and because it was cold. Humans would work less hours in winter and there was more space and time to be tending to family and holidays. Baking was purposeful to warm the hearth and nourish cold bellies. It wasn’t a task or expectation to be completed between end-of-year work stress, sacrificing sleep, and proving your holiday worth. It was a quiet time of rebalancing, releasing, resetting, and reflecting. 

Wishing you a season of contemplation and clarity so that you can create all that you wish. 

Peace.